HICOM Automotive Manufacturers (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (HAMM) is part of the DRB HICROM Bhd. company for production and assembly of automobiles. The company's headquarters is located in Pekan, Malaysia. Previously, the company was also known as Automotive Manufacturers (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.
The companies roots extend back to 1983 and originally consisted of the assembly in the Integrated Complex settled factory covering an area of 541,070 m². Since the opening of the plant, 13,000 vehicles per year produced in-house and more than 47,000 CKD kits are assembled for the local and surrounding markets.
The main products of the company are the Suzuki Swift and the Iveco Maxi. But they also produce trucks like Mitsubishi Fuso. Furthermore, in the main work force since 2010 is also the bus chassis of the Daewoo company.
In a joint venture with Mercedes-Benz Malaysia Sdn, since 2005, the Mercedes-Benz C - and the Mercedes-Benz E-Class are assembled. In 2006 the Mercedes-Benz S-Class was added.
On August 13, 2010, Volkswagen AG announced another joint venture. It is currently under the Growth Strategy 2018 and includes a production plant for passenger cars of the brand Volkswagen. Construction will take approximately 15 to 18 months, so the new plant is to open in 2012. The first cars here are the Volkswagen New Beetle, the Volkswagen Passat CC and the Volkswagen Golf GTI. Of these, about 900 to 1000 units are reserved for the local Malaysian market. Total annually will be up to 60,000 units assembled in Malaysia. The design of VW's strategy also looks at making the cheapest car in the world that could be here in the Malaysian plant to be possibly produced.
In partnership with the company Weststar, since 2007 the Weststar LDV has been built. In April 2010 was a so-called memorandum of understanding signed in which the company committed from 2012 sports car, which the companies Potenza Sports Car Ltd., GTM Cars and Roadster Bil AB have been developed to produce in Malaysia.

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